Urgent appeal for supplies after strong Indonesia quake
Aftershocks rattled the survivors of a devastating Indonesian earthquake that killed more than 100 people, as officials urgently appealed on Thursday for medicine and doctors to treat the hundreds...
EU launches legal action against Germany over VW emissions scandal
The European Commission launched legal action on Thursday against authorities in seven EU nations including Germany and Britain for failing to crack down on emissions cheating exposed by the...
Trump picks fossil fuel ally to head environment agency
President-elect Donald Trump announced on Thursday he had tapped Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, criticized as a climate change denier and a staunch fossil fuel ally, to head the...
Paris faces worst pollution in a decade, traffic restrictions introduced
Paris was smothered on Wednesday by its worst winter pollution in a decade, with commuters enjoying free public transport and half of all cars ordered off the road to try to clear the air. The surge...
Solar panels repay their energy ‘debt’
The climate-friendly electricity generated by solar panels in the past 40 years has all but cancelled out the polluting energy used to produce them, a study said Tuesday. Indeed, by some...
Saffron, rural Spain’s crisis-beating spice
On the arid, wind-swept plateau of central Spain, saffron producers are reaping the benefits of a return to favour of the precious spice introduced by Arabs in the Middle Ages. After a lull in...
Captive elephants help save wild cousins on forest frontline
It was the middle of the night when the villagers sounded the alarm: a huge Sumatran elephant was raiding their rice fields, and they needed urgent help to drive it back to the forest. Dodot —...
Amazon Opens A Grocery Store With No Checkout Line
Amazon has gone after book stores, retail chains and electronics shops. Now it’s taking on grocery stores, with a twist. Amazon unveiled in a video a new physical store on Monday that sells a mix of...
